A Teacher's Toolbox - Resources 4 Busy Educators

A Teacher's Toolbox is the companion of adrianbruce.com. Both showcase: recent educational resources that have been added to the site, my ICT work with teachers and students, free reading games, free maths games, free educational software and much, much more. Feel free to check it out and if you know people who can use this stuff, send it on :)
Be SURE to check out MY ARCHIVE - Heaps of GREAT STUFF there!

Now that the hurly burly of the end of a school year is over I'm looking forward to some big career changes in 2008.

I've taken the big step of becoming a full time freelance Information and Communication Technology Integration Specialist. It is a little daunting but there are many opportunities presenting themselves esp a couple of overseas trips in the planning stages :)

In the meantime I'm working on some big changes at adrianbruce.com.

The site has finally become too big for my local server so I've moved the whole thing to a server in the US. There are a few teething hassles, (I'm working on getting my forms working again hehehe) but I'm getting there as I learn the server side stuff.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Hint - When you download Google Sky through my Space Page select the Google Pack link but then only tick the Google Earth box. The Google Pack is a very big download and I find doing them one at a time is much easier.

There are many other resources worth getting your class to have a look at on my Space Links page.

Google Sky is just one of the fantastic educational resources for exploring space I've added to the my latest Virtual Library page.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Last weekend I finally finished Covey's, ' Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'. I found it interesting that a few of the habits that he discusses are already deeply en ground parts of my psyche esp. the idea that effective people are pro-active i.e. they get off their butts and do stuff :)

I've never been a big fan of the 'self help' genre but in amongst all the 'jargon' I found one gem that I could 'resonate' with. hehehehehe

' Imagine what an organisation could achieve if every person on staff was treated as a volunteer rather than a subordinate'.

What would this do to the dynamics of this organisation?What would happen to the culture of horizontal violence in such organisation?What would happen to the lip service paid to 'team'?What would happen to directives that HAD to be followed?What would happen to the directives that HAD to be supported?What would happen to bullying of staff?What would happen to quality of educational outcomes?What would happen to staff morale?What would happen to the budget for stress leave?What would happen to the retention rate of beginning teachers in their first 5 years of teaching?How would staff perceive those in 'leadership' roles as opposed to those 'management' roles and even worse... those who are consumed by 'micro-management'?